The game is played with two teams of two players, a Lead and a Skip. To start the game the Leads toss for the jack and the winner of the toss delivers the jack and then his first bowl, then his opponent delivers his first bowl. Then they each deliver their second bowl. Then they change ends and the skips go and bowl their four bowls in sequence then return to the head and the leads return to bowl their last two bowls in sequence.

The skip of the first end winners then bowl their first two bowls in sequence, followed by the leads going down to bowl their four bowls in sequence with the skips returning to deliver their last two bowls, this is repeated until the agreed number of ends is completed.